actress lindsay low and keep this time playing the preacher about these women nothing people are saying she speaks she's no longer you know she says she's a star.

and now it's time for the big picture on the panels night alan nathan host of the radio show battle line with alan nathan on the main street radio network erica kennedy democratic strategist and kerry pickett editor blogger at the washington times ok let's get started chaos in wisconsin governor walker's threatening massive layoffs today if he doesn't get his way democrats are trying to recall republicans and republicans are trying to have democrats arrested so why is scott walker the koch brothers lapdog trying to destroy our democracy on. i think you were. elected left to use who feel it's necessary to corrupt the very democratic process they took an oath to support filibuster believe in states were you why do that i mean it's as if the whole win votes go our way it should be called wall when the

votes go the way of the opposition well let's have the additional standard of further compromise to see where he was a true not at all you said what i stated to be inferred as nothing more than. he did with the likes time they were locked in and the votes to go. you know what. you're talking of the evil koch brothers i'd like to remind everyone here that georgia pacific which is a koch industries that's also part of the pension fund. the public unions. yeah i don't know why they're so upset with the koch brothers considering that they're probably making a lot of money in their retirements but i think the main thing here is that scott walker's behave like a petulant child he doesn't want to talk to the state senators he doesn't like that they're not going his way he got the concessions from the unions that he wanted and the first let's go back even further to how this all started the but the budget was

balanced when doyle left he passed massive tax cuts which then made the budget crisis so he had so he could do the budget repair bill which he tried to shove here in three days without much testimony or much hearing going through committee and when the state senator said you know look we've got to slow this down we want to go through this like hold on hold on here he lack they left the state because there is no other option because of those who are going their way look if everything is to compromise in perpetuity then it's never up for settlement. and yet it is not a compromise it's a valid. point where you have more votes on one side. the other two former trumps the latter and the latter if they're upset about it they get to live another day another electoral opportunity will come along one of them would you. say i'm going to go home because i can see you can't have it under the street you can't arrest people who disagree with you either or shut them out of the capitol which is

also something that walker has done and this is really you then you really begin to notice not the state supreme court ruled that they need to open the capital back up but they were violating people's first amendment rights no actually this far as the court was concerned all these all these so that people can be sleeping in the capitol day after day after they actually open it up and frankly i'd like to point out the people who were sleeping in the capitol signs all over that more probably cost the people of wisconsin at least six point five million dollars not true they have they ever have those numbers immediately and the painters union have agreed to come in and help painted the donate their time and services to say that people who are using painters tape painters tape to put signs up is worth seven million dollars i mean that you actually it's like we can steal a million. people put up signs there and i actually not only not only that at one point i want to go plug in my head into the outlet and it wasn't the outlet wasn't working some guy whips out a sharpie and says ok you know what i'm going to read in the wall here and you know

it's a doesn't work i'm like oh you have to do that and the guy vandalized the marble i mean this is absolutely ridiculous and not to mention the fact that the whole capital began stinking up a bit but that's secondary and tertiary which is of greater importance is the fact that you had employees one side is going to prevail over the other look they had to beat italy for me. that's right there in the constitution but they can also attach though the collective bargaining to spending bill and then the national right to me and you know not to be doing that because that would be admitting that this isn't of help if i can. if not for your return we're going to have to look fifteen hundred people go and do totally connotatively it's on you. just to me and the big picture by virtue of the. the corporate and republican see no place for unions in american society and they were going to start as they can't turn this into a libertarian republic like. i thought. it would produce look like yeah when it was originally government does nothing. you can always take

a look at this graph so you can see the monitor over there you see it here it clearly shows a forty year drop in union membership corresponding with a forty year drop in middle class and sure. this is not partisan this is math so why republicans think wealth inequality in america is. this is an issue about republicans think wanting wealth inequality in the end i think what republicans conservatives are looking for is people to actually succeed on their own i mean look union membership has been on the decline for a number of years simply so has well. no i don't really see it on their own the roads the public schools the infrastructure that we all benefit from is something that all companies and this country benefit from and the workers benefit from it as well and the fact is that the tax code have shifted. but what if the well this kind of focus that people who are in big business and who are shipping jobs

overseas and disadvantaging and workers that you know that that's ok that's fine it's an illusion even the unions are the problem so much private sector unions are fine because mutual counter which you have the leaders representing the union members and on the opposite side you've got corporate representatives of course looking out for the shareholders but they're not employees with public unions so it workers because when it comes to public unions yes those leaders are looking out for their their folks but on the other side you have politicians who while they're supposed to be looking out for the taxpayers are instead fighting for greater political rewards by acquiescing to the union member you see a member. of ensuring that would kill that i would hear it wants to change it if they want there are there's a fundamental difference there are there are middle class tax payers and there are high income taxpayers and a lot. unhappy and they became middle class jobs because of the unions and that we've now seen a shifting of power over into the high income earners we've seen that their tax burden has disproportionately been decreased and then the share the shoulder the people who are shouldering the burden here are the middle class and so we really

disagree about publishing the huge already the middle class do not belong to unions and guess what the people laying out the money to private sector unions or corporations who can be legitimately argued had much of their wealth brought about because of union workers i'm for collective bargaining big time however when it comes to public sector unions that disparity is tremendous because then the bosses the taxpayer even richard cole no stranger to liberalism said you know what i don't want to be the sap here just like any quoted. plenty of liberals are coming along with the perspective i don't know i just told you what i am not for just the nobody's going i was just going to be suitably ratios the republicans don't care about inequality or its consequence poor people they only care about the rich people who are funny in class i mean there's lots of really good and. there. is no warren buffett america's plazas when you. look at these results from a new n.b.c. wall street journal for eighty one percent of americans this is you know what's the

best way to solve the budget crisis right now eighty one percent of americans support taxing millionaires sixty eight percent of americans want the bush tax cuts repealed i'm super rich so this is wall street journal poll seventy four percent of americans want to cut subsidies to big oil producers because republicans are opposed to all of these ideas so how long until americans realize that the real extremists in our country are the republicans are totally out of step with them they were even if there were some extremists then why did so many republicans and getting elected into it over over and over onto the house side apparently all the american happens to be extremist if that's the case i mean let's not forget here there are a number of these wealthy americans that everyone likes to pick on there who are also very. we're here to also highering a number of people in the private sector who are also unemployed unfortunately though they're the there are so overregulated they're so overtaxed and very often we hear from people on the left such as yourselves that we'll have people there but they're there and are taking

a companies overseas are pushing jobs overseas the reason why do you and the patentee pushed overseas is because they're being overtaxed and overregulated over here in the united states just like we've forgotten completely that we have the second highest corporate tax rate in the country in the world i mean in the world we have a secular i guess we have to tax free in the universe are so good we actually second lowest tax collections in the developed thirty four e.c.g. nations our corporations pay the second lowest tax i would measure budget on what percentage of g.d.p. percentage of income percentage pretty much anything you see the second lowest of lows you know the average tax that's actually paid by corporations yes this is seven percent i believe thirty percent tax rate on the wealthiest one percent carrying eisenhower all the way up to reagan was much higher than it is now and i would say a lot of people with a gold in the home of john f. kennedy. the son of the middle this is not only say john f. kennedy made it clear that it's a paradoxical truth that when you lower tax rates you increase tax revenues because you allow businesses to have that many more dollars to hire that many more people

which contributes that many more dollars which is i assume he's a large each of the evolutional is going to mad marty and any ministration insurers who worked in the reagan ministry the reality is that what if the majority of american workers looking right now they watch wall street tank their economy and them on main street. really should use you know get ready because you do you know first of all again let me recommend that you go back and actually i know the identity yeah usually it's ninety to seventy i would gladly want to show you that is because we can make them to make sure they sure as long as army is run by centralized corporate oligarchy always basically and gives the news really stream is and the republicans will be you know most of us will be right back still more ahead here on. picture. more top stories. for flimsy lo and. behold the rachel. people are still just the

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we're back to the big picture rumble i'm joined by alan nathan host of the real issue of battle lines and ellen needs another radio network erica democratic strategist and kerry picket blogger at the washington times let's get back to it republicans are trying to stamp out the regulation of potentially toxic products persons baby bottles because it cuts of the profits of their c.e.o. bodies why is it that the republicans want to poisonous but how do we all do they think that we should all have our own personal food tasters i mean what's the deal here this is the classical art of medieval standards where when you rename a thing as being something other than what it is in order to game to grow your arguments otherwise it would not as public we have the uses of we have to do budgeting tree are things are going to have to be cut no matter what we cut this what good people are going to be harmed by i don't know how you skate this and i mean the republicans also have to face up to this other surgeries i believe we can agree and disagree on both sides of the aisle and i want you to publish this in the debate of seats in the companies that are everything to do with our mission sharing

has been something that you know has been under attack in a lot of ways in the food safety that's basically information sharing bill to allow different health departments to communicate with one another so that when there's a and e. coli outbreak that the hospitals and the health people can contribute as quickly as possible same thing with products that when you discover that there's health problems or that a product has toxic levels we want people to be able to have that information shared as quickly as possible and in my experience in working in the senate is that we found a lot of industries were actually very supportive of having these standards because a lot of companies were doing that and were kind of you know the good faith arguer and then were finding that they were getting clocked when it came to competition from places like china and that without these regulations. they set up a disadvantage to people who actually want to do the right thing and not poison their customers here isn't there a place for regulation well we the people well look first of all i don't think that republicans are out to poison anyone to mean that this goes back to the old argument that the republicans aren't for clean air or

a clean water and therefore they should have used that you know you know but you know what it comes down to is of course nobody wants to see people being hurt by my products and and and that's why of course that we have the court system and right now and also we have people to to also check these things out but. we should let it go at this be resolved but as far as transparency is a concern i find it very fascinating the number of liberals who are saying oh we have to show transparency with this and that but in the same way transparency elsewhere it's not really happening the problem in my mind is that corporations are essentially sociopaths they're beholden nobody's profits they don't have a moral compass and we therefore have to have government power to. suit their way so i mean next topic. on sunday director charles ferguson won the oscar for best documentary film of his movie inside job here's what he said in its acceptance speech. i must start by pointing out the three

years after horrific financial crisis caused by massive fraud night he single financial executive has gone to jail and that's wrong thanks so will either party ever be able to part with campaign contributors and do what's right by throwing the banks in jail i didn't see it there and bush will not see it there on the or not the only villains here you know harry reid rightly said was that they. everybody works on wall street and that the only bills here for financial collapse that memory serves harry reid said during a week election and rightfully so that would trigger this whole mess was the repeal of glass steagall which was the depression era legislation that used to separate corporate banking from investment banking from investment banking and he was right however when you forgot was that the vast majority of both democrats and republicans on both sides of the aisle including our you read voted to repeal glass

steagall and he's correct this one the reasons why fannie mae and freddie mac. were able to enable these banks to write all the bad paper for instance that's why it's true yes or brock obama did inherit this horrible economy because what it was be cui to him by both parties on both in both chambers let you know the state how do we do it when you leave the homosexual i also like this as far as the whole penny may freddie mac. the issue here because even back in two thousand and five george bush said we have to start reforming what's going on. you know racism. and i was going to go out to deal with this and barney frank had been standing there waiting in line even then and one video no five he said i don't know if you agree with to fannie mae and freddie mac. my accent was not to say of any problem is that the reality you want to be able to propose legislation because i already party have been when he was in the minority party time could not put legislation out there without the majorities concept so they were not able to deal with that in the way that they should have but they get back to the real question of why people haven't gone to jail is that right but. isn't illegal in our country we have this idea that the market would take care of

itself because doing something as stupid as taking the economy or some that were badly seemed to be something that would check it so that people wouldn't want to do that but when we put the incentives on these kind of short term gain for people who are rewarded for how many loans they gave out not how many good loans they gave parties thank you very much. the big picture for me in this is i miss ronald reagan . when we get crisis he put over two thousand baxter's. and i think both british will do what you do criminal activity which is the school release of the actual law that have kept libya is a nation alone or with itself isn't it. yeah and republicans have an idea about how to fix that mess the heritage foundation put out a report this week supporting dropping bombs so why do conservatives think they can solve just about everything by dropping bombs you're different or a kid i mean like the only bar hey look i mean in libya look for a foot in kosovo and it was right we were able to do with air power alone and we

had no troops on the ground we were bombing anybody else at the same can't remember though as far as libya is concerned this just goes to show you the government's response to a it was slow be you really tend to wonder what exactly obama plans on doing in terms of a response without some kind of multilateral group coming in because you know even star cozy is looking at him wondering you know what kind of a key strategy do you really have going here the brits are looking at him as also weak so you know probably from germany you know why do you lose and i mean honestly like the europeans are looking at this president and wondering what exactly is this plan here. financial times every day which is fairly international never seen any european leaders say. yes i will first person it needs to be decided within libya and that we have got we are already dropping bombs on our average on bombs in afghanistan to take on a third country. is it going to make it any better probably not you know strike

still in our no fly zone which first you would probably be entreated and that as an act of war secretary of defense made it abundantly clear if we do that we've got to destroy equipment in libya we have to first attack libya so was to create the no fly zone and it just doesn't happen on its own if you are going to survive your response to the work it will create it will cause more problems than it will solve and to a certain degree i mean it should do it's not going to session if you do your best but you'll be able to get what you think is the problem here was the obama said you know what we really couldn't have spoken out too badly over libya because we were scared that the americans were already in there they would start hurting them i mean that was almost like saying please don't hurt our army. you know we'll be real nice to you i mean that was like a really weak response and immediately makes you wonder where exactly is this president in terms of course i don't know how you are going to be dictated by obama looking like the biggest baddest bully in the room i think it takes a lot of. my extreme doesn't mean that i began to run this is if we american eyes this week you sort of really. i think obama's doing the right thing

by stepping back finally quick question to what lengths will birth republicans go to keep president obama from being a second term president will lay a blood from him in german if he has human d.n.a. the demand strip searches to find the man made in kenya label or see how you've been hit song in africa from the eighty's band just to see the president's reaction if he dances and he's definitely. what it is you know what i think this is an issue that the liberals want out there and the liberals need out there because frankly as far as they're concerned it would be you know gee you know we've got to have the birth there is out there because it would really help us in campaign two thousand and twelve but you know what is really are these are these are one sentence and how this college transcripts that's what everyone's really wondering about you know what did obama get when it when it was over an out of harvard and they're not born in hawaii and have a liberal might he be brought this out to help out other liberals and i'm really confused is that iran if you keep him he could make this all go away which is

producing a lot for also his good buddy governor abercrombie make things worse he says i'll prove that he's a citizen i'm going to go to the archives and i'm going to find the long form birth certificate he couldn't find it found a little notation and i think he's a citizen but the reality is obama could make all the school way by simply coffin of the long form birth certificate but he will do it and they can find the you know your here's the bottom of a third just don't blame us for proof you can't i guess you. just want to ask everybody else for quality groceries on some of the we keep on a will be elected and there's going to flee we can address that nation's average i.q. but fifteen points. so only for validation and character can only carry very carry very good thank you all for being respectful i think that we do.

you think it's just a coincidence that only a few months after the supreme court's citizens united decision republicans are waging war against me unions across the country that the koch brothers and billionaires and wall street are funding both directly and indirectly a variety of politicians from scott walker in wisconsin to pretty much any anti-union republican who sticks his head up it's no coincidence in fact is the final part of a plan an act that way back in eighteen eighty six by the wealthiest people in our nation to undermine our democracy and put in place one party rule in america boils down to something called corporate personhood and it's the basis of book i wrote called an equal protection. our founders knew all too well the dangers of corporate power at the boston tea party was a protest against the world's largest trans national corporation of the time the british east india company and through the first century of our nation presidents legislators and the courts held today a healthy mistrust of corporate power was

a good thing that was until just after the civil war when the fourteenth amendment was passed to give former slaves access to our courts equal protection under the law by saying no stake children eyes to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law is a simple innocuous tech liberation and there was a loophole in the fourteenth amendment and explains everything that's going on in america today the sixth sense the sixth century british common law on which ours was based as distinguished actual people from other entities by government businesses and churches by the clergy humans as natural persons and corporations governments and churches as artificial persons but since the fourteenth amendment right about the word natural before the word person. corporations use the vagary and have since argued that they should be considered persons like you and me as the artificial persons and otherwise many of the other were normal human

protections under the constitution they should have them all and in eight hundred eighty six in the case of santa clara county vs southern pacific railroad the supreme court seemed to agree with this argument but the truth we now know is that the court's decision was actually changed by a court reporter and the court never really did give corporations rights as persons still the idea struck stark excuse me because that same corrupt court reporter since then a corporate person an entity that is not born does not die is neither male nor female doesn't need safe water or clean food cannot be put in prison it enjoys many of the same constitutional rights that you and i do exists there now a super purse. and this idea of corporations as people lay mostly quiet until the one nine hundred seventy s. when american corporations began to push in front of the supreme court with decisions like buckley versus vallejo in first national bank versus bloddy

decisions that essentially expanded the rights of corporations based on the idea that they were persons but it wasn't until january of two thousand and ten last year that the supreme court really blew the doors out granting far fuller freedom of speech rights to corporations in their citizens united decision and thus the final piece of the puzzle was fit in for the chamber of commerce in america's transnational corporations of billionaires now corporations as people critics planned it could expand their influence into the markets and into the government they now had unprecedented influence as a result of the supreme court decision about a year ago over our society and their intentions were not small the democratic with their new rights some of the wealthiest our guards in america dumped millions of dollars from their private or corporate coffers in the republican political campaigns and a few sexually and of a few corporate democrats and as a result of a new corporate spending by

a large republicans the lapdogs of the c.e.o.'s and the billionaires swept into the halls of congress and governors' mansions in states all across the country and today those newly elected republicans are repaying their corporate overlords by going after the last group left it's big enough or well funded enough to challenge corporate power the unions who because of democratic because the democratic party tends to be more pro worker and pro c.e.o. i just happen to mostly contribute a democrat it's so for the billionaires and c.e.o.'s the math becomes pretty simple if you kill unions it's over welcome to one party republican corporate rule. we have to amend the fourteenth amendment and insert that critical word natural before the word person because its absence in the last two hundred fifty years has mortally wounded our democracy it's time to x.

listen to clear this word natural before the word person explicitly declare once and for all corporations are not people. and that's the big picture for us and i for more information you can visit our website it's on our blog r t dot com also check out our you tube page of youtube dot coms slash picture archie and don't forget the democracy begins when you get out there when you show up when you get out here tag you're it. wealthy british style sun. times.

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